[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 135186] Attempt to reduce uniqueness of canvas fingerprinting

Thu Jul 24 12:07:59 PDT 2014

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135186

Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX
                 CC|                            |oliver at apple.com

--- Comment #1 from Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com>  2014-07-24 12:08:13 PST ---
Closing this as invalid, the paper that describes this states ~5 bits of accuracy which is more or less meaningless in terms of anything approaching unique user tracking.  But that is ignores that bigger problem in paper of all of their states being based of a sample size of 294 systems. 294 systems is not enough to be even remotely representative of the real world.  They would need orders of magnitude more samples for it to be meaningful - like at minimum a few 100k systems.

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